MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. 2015 Routledge.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
that
explores
issues
relating to open
educational resources
and
massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Brand new
improvements in
online learning enable
humans
in all parts of the world
to take part in online classes.
These massive open courses are
normally free
but do not
always
lead to formal accreditation.
A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation.
There are several
issues that
learning technology organizations
are having to attend to
now that e-learning technology is
advancing so rapidly.
How can teachers
assure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massive open online courses is
satisfactory?
How can learners
make sure that
instructors are properly credentialed
to teach classes online?
MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time.
What business strategies are being used by
institutions like
Israel to conduct these massively open online courses?
What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal?
How can participants
deal with
inadequate
student motivation and high
attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
available there is a
increasing
desideratum
to better understand how
MOOCs are being conducted.
Professors
and numerous other
participants
want
to better understand
these
new open education
experiments.
Students want
to gain more knowledge about how
massively open online courses
can be made better.
To meet this
expanding
desire for
data
the gripping new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
offers a critical analysis of
these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects.
This intriguing new book
also considers the
most important controversies associated with
these massive open courses and open educational resources.
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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